I didn't know how to phrase my title to make it meaningful to anyone, and I can't really explain it now, so I shall use an example:
The opening phrase on the DSGB website is "It's counting, Jim, but ...

The usage of '[sic]' is well defined for quoting a passage that you believe has an error in it: nearest to the mistake you place '[sic]' within the quotes. For example, suppose I write a letter from I ...

It is a supposedly witty paraprosdokian said by Churchill. But I (and possibly some other people whose first language is not English) don't get it. Can someone explain what it means? Do English native ...

A quote in a book contained the word "con[struction]."
It was used just as the word construct would have been. Is con ever used as an abbreviation of construction? Would there be any other reason to ...

Please bear with me as I am not an English expert, only an aspiring amateur!
I'm mostly aware of the rules regarding punctuation and quotes. Something like the following sentence makes sense to me:
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